This
chronology lists several of the events in mythology and legend with known
events in history along with several events of topical interest.

The Hyborian Age
(according to Robert Howard, this age occurs between the Ice Age and the
beginning of written history.)

c. 4004 BC (?) - Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden

c. 3100  Estimated
construction of Stonehenge in Wales. Its components are excavated from the
Preseli Hills, 240 miles distant from its present location.

2690  King Khufu
(Cheops) begins construction of the Great Pyramid

c. 2500  Construction
of the pyramids begins in Egypt.

Cronus deposes Ouranus

Cronus imprisons his
children in Tartarus (Later legends erroneously claims he swallows them
and that they survived inside him until released.)

Zeus is born on Mount
Ida in Crete. His birth is kept a secret from Cronus and minor goddesses
raise Zeus in secret.

Metis is the first wife
of Zeus.

Zeus learns his destiny
to conquer Olympus. He seduces and takes Themis, Mnemosyne, Dione and
Eurynome as wives.

Zeus frees his siblings
from Tartarus.

Zeus seduces Demeter
and Hera.

C. 2475  King Gilgamesh
reigns as Ruler of Ur in the Sumeria Empire

c. 2404  Biblical
Noah/Utnapishtim and his family survive the flood in an ark. Zeus conquers
Olympus and takes Hera as his queen; Cronus flees into exile. Zeus and his
brothers cast lots for the world as Poseidon inherits the oceans and Hades
takes over Tartarus with his kingdom centered and named for himself.

Eileithyia born.

Persephone born.

Hera drives Zeuss
other wives from Olympus. Leto flees to the island of Delos, Metis for
Libya and Dione for Cythera.

Apollo and Artemis born
from Leto with Eileithyia as midwife.

Ares (Aphneius) is born
to Zeus and Hera on Olympus.

Aphrodite born on
Cythera (later legends claim she sprang from the ocean).

Hephaestus born.

Ares and Hephaestus are
young gods as their half-sister, Athena, daughter of Zeus and Metis
arrives at Olympus with the secret to the headaches, which Zeus is suffering
(Later legends erroneously claim she sprung from his head).

Hephaestus remains
humble, seeking to tinker as a blacksmith god. Zeus accuses Hera of
infidelity under the belief that Hephaestus is not his son. In the
scuffle, they blindly knock the young smith god from Olympus. He lands in
the sea near Lemnos and nursed from his injuries to full health by the
Nereids.

c. 2395 BC  Gilgamesh
reigns as King of Ur

Inanna/Aphrodite tries
to tempt Gilgamesh, but he spurns her advantages.

Hermes born

As a young god, Hermes
steals the cattle of Apollo and sacrifices one to the gods counting
himself among them. Apollo backs Hermes acceptance into the pantheon.

c. 2190 BC  Shi Huang
Ti, first ruler of unified China, begins construction of the Great Wall of
China using prisoners of war as slave labor.

c. 2000 BC  The
Ancient Greeks begin worshipping the Olympian Pantheon as gods. Some of
the Olympian Immortals begin choosing their favorite cities as centers of
their worship.

Inachos arbitrates
Argos to Hera instead of Poseidon. His riverbed is dried up in
retaliation.

Phoroneus founds
Phoronea.

Pelasgus, son of
Inachos, becomes leader of the Pelasgians.

c. 1900 - The first
Battle of Magh Tureidh in Ireland between the Tuatha de Danaan and the
Fomore

c. 1700  The Milesians
conquer Eire from the Tuatha de Danaan

c. 1600 - Zeus seduces
Io, daughter of Inachos, but transforms her into a cow to conceal the
infidelity. Her sister, Mycene, marries Arestor, founder of Mycenae.

Hera has Argus guard
Io, but he is slain by Hermes. Io flees to her father, Inachos, the
river-god, who barely recognizes her. She flees to Egypt and gives birth
to Epaphus.

Young Epaphus is friend
of Phaethon, son of Helios. Phaethon travels to his father for proof he is
his son. He scorches the Earth trying to maneuver Helioss sun chariot and
is knocked out of the sky by Zeus.

c. 1585  Epaphus/Apepi
reigns as King of Egypt.

c. 1575 - Apis succeeds
Phoroneus, king of Argos.

Hephaestus is welcomed
back to Olympus by Hera. He creates thunderbolts for Zeus and jewelry for
Hera.

Prometheus steals fire
to give to mortals, but is chained to the Caucasus Mountains as
punishment.

Hephaestus creates
Pandora and Hera brings her to life to bring misfortune to mortal man for
accepting fire.

Pandora opens a jar she
was warned to never open and a hive of demons are released spawning evil
in mortal man from it.

Prometheus warns
Deucalion to build an ark.

1470 BC 
Thera/Atlantis explodes. The resulting flood washes away the earth. Athens
is flooded during the reign of King Cecrops believing it is punishment for
accepting Athena as their matron goddess over Poseidon. Celtic Noah and
his family survive in an ark as does Deucalion whose father had a
premonition of the disaster. Pelasgus, King of Arcadia and heir to Argos,
survives the flood.

Greek armies invade
Phoenicia. Aphrodite joins the Olympian pantheon after an existence as
Ishtar of the Phoenician gods. Zeus seduces the Phoenician princess Europa
and takes her to Crete.

Sons of Japeth, the son
of Noah, conquer Eire and Britain. Rivals of the native Celtic gods, they
become ancestors to the kings of Eire and Britain.

c. 1465  Danaus and
his daughters are received by King Galanor of Argos. They claim Argos as
ancestors of Io.

1462 BC  Eight years
after the flood, Cadmus founds Thebes by conquering the indigenous Hyantes
and Aonian tribes and slaying a dragon sacred to Ares.

c. 1459  Hades abducts
Persephone in the reign of King Celeus of Eleusis.

1454 BC  Eight years
after killing the dragon, Cadmus becomes king of Thebes.

c. 1440  Zeus seduces
Semele, daughter of Cadmus. Hera places doubts in her of whether Zeus is
her lover and she dies by accident when he calls upon lightning to prove
his identity. Zeus removes his son Dionysus from her to spare his life and
gives him to the Maenads, lesser goddesses to nurse to health.

1420 BC Aethlius
founds Elis fifty years after the flood.

1419 BC  After a long
reign, Cadmus supplanted by Pentheus.

c. 1395  The city of
Jericho in Ancient Palestine falls under forces controlled by Israelite
leader Joshua. All its inhabitants are massacred and the city is cursed.

1379  Pentheus is
deposed by Dionysus. Polydorus, his brother-in-law and son of Cadmus,
succeeds him.

1363 BC  During the
Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall of China is restored after it is nearly
destroyed by Mongolian occupation.

As an adult, Dionysus
joins the Olympian Pantheon.

Hephaestus discovers
Aphrodite has been unfaithful with Ares and reveals the affair to the
gods. He lays his bad marriage on the fault of Hera and builds a throne
that imprisons her. Dionysus gets him drunk to release her.

c. 1255 Oedipus learns
that Jocasta is his mother and blinds himself. He abdicates and places
Eteocles and Polyneices on the throne.

1250 BC  Philistine
armies from Caphtor (Crete) invade Gerar (Palestine). The Philistines are
rumored to be descendants of the Pelasgians.

Eteocles banishes
Polyneices who raises an army in Argos to retake the throne in the reign
of King Adrastus. Both brothers slay each other in battle. Elderly Creon
becomes regent for Laodamas, son of Eteocles.

c. 1242 - Creon is
murdered by Lycus, who is in turn is deposed by Hercules. Thersander, son
of Polyneices, takes the throne.Peleus and Telamon born to Aeacus and Endeis in Phthia.

Peleus weds Thetis.

c. 1229  Peleus and
Telamon join the Argonauts.

1223 BC  Helen and
Pollux born in Sparta to Zeus and Leda. Leda also conceives Castor and
Clytemnestra to King Tyndareus restored to the Spartan throne by Hercules.

Trojan refugees from
Thrace conquer lands north of Gaul. Their ancestors will found the region
of Saxony upon which modern Germany is built and conquer Britain from the
Celts, developing later the British Empire.

c. 1114 BC 
Damasichthon, son of Peneleus, becomes King of Thebes.

1050 BC  Samson,
defender of the Israelites, topples the temple of Samson down upon himself
and 1000 Philistines after being betrayed by his mistress.

1000 BC  David slays
Goliath and becomes Ruler of Israel.

Queen Louhi of Pohjola
(now part of modern Finland) holds the wizard Vainamoinen captive in
return for the creation of a mystical amulet

Legendary King Brutus,
great-grandson of Aeneas, becomes founder and the first king of Britain.

c. 390 AD  King
Vortigern meets with Saxon leaders Hengist and Horsa, descendants of Odin,
in allowing the Saxons into Britain. He slays King Constantine of Britain
and takes the throne for himself.

c. 395 AD  Merlin
commissions the moving of Stonehenge to its present location at Salisbury.

c. 400 AD  King
Gunther of Burgundy takes over land down river on the Rhine and meets
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, of the Netherlands. In the South Pacific,
Polynesians led by Chief Hotu Matua land at Easter Island.

Siegfried helps Gunther
win the hand of Brynhild.

404 AD  Last
tournament held in Roman Coliseum

410 AD  King Arthur
begins his reign as King of Britain.

433 AD  Attila the Hun
and his armies lay siege to much of Western Europe

465 AD  Arthur is
slain by his treacherous son, Mordred, at the Battle of Camlann. He
bequeaths Excalibur to be returned to the Lady of the Lake.

476 AD  The collapse
of the Roman Empire

534 AD  Burgundy
absorbed into the Frank Empire (now part of modern France).